Welcome to Friday's extra-special* eve-of-the-new-season transfer live blog, where we'll be here all day to bring you the latest wheeling and dealing on the final day of the pre-season.

But first we're going to tip our (baseball) cap to this morning's big, big story which is the news that Tony Pulis has walked out on Crystal Palace following a row with chairman Steve Parish over transfer shenanigans. Yoinks.

Once you've got your head around that, we'll get cracking on the rest of the day's transfer stories, so grab a coffee (other beverages are available) and we'll get to it.

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David Anderson

Have DavidLuiz inadvertently helped ManchesterUnited in their quest to land AngelDiMaria? David Anderson explains:

Manchester United are in the box seat to sign AngelDiMaria after Paris Saint-Germain pulled out of the race.

PSG have withdrawn from the bidding for Di Maria because they cannot fit the Real Madrid star under their Financial Fair Play spending cap.

The French champions have already blown their £50million limit on buying defender David Luiz from Chelsea and president Nasser Al-Khelaifi admits the Di Maria deal is “too expensive”.

However, the Old Trafford giants must still agree a fee with Real – they are demanding £48m for the Argentina World Cup winger - and also convince Di Maria to join them, as his preferred choice was PSG.